install Pyaudio - whl

Question

I tried to install PyAudio on Windows 7 64bit. Installing it with pip throws dependency errors which end up in the question how to satisfy those. So i tried to install it with wheel, the suggestion was to just use pip install:

D:\Programming\Kivy>dir
...
27.03.2015  08:11           113.556 PyAudio.whl

D:\Programming\Kivy>pip install PyAudio.whl
Downloading/unpacking PyAudio.whl
  Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement PyAudio.whl
No distributions at all found for PyAudio.whl
Storing complete log in C:\Users\WindowsPro\AppData\Roaming\pip\pip.log

Any suggestion how to install pyaudio?

Solution 1

What version of pip do you have? Show the output pip -V. It might be necessary to have a current pip version 6 to install the whl. If this is not the case do pip install --upgrade pip (it might be necessary to start the console with admin rights).

Did you download the library from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pyaudio? I just installed this version with pip and it works.

As an alternative you can download the installer exe from http://people.csail.mit.edu/hubert/pyaudio/#downloads and install it like a regular program.

Solution 2

If you cant donwload it by pip install pyaudio you can download it from here. When you found PyAudio, find the version of your Python (ex. 3.7.2 32bit).

DOWNLOAD THE RIGHT VERSION. Once you found the .whl of your python version, download it. Install it by opening cmd, going to the folder that you save it and write pip install "pyaudio_whl_file.whl"

And that's it

Comments

[J. Murray]

Why are you linking an external site for that module when you could provide the one from python's own repo? More people would select that one!

[Mume]

J. Murray, If he can install it due to a conflict between applications, he can directly download the WHL If not, then install it with pip